Players using the Cooking skill can produce burnt meat by failing to cook Raw meat. Higher cooking levels decrease the chance of burning raw meat until eventually players stop burning it altogether. Players can deliberately make burnt meat by cooking a piece of Cooked meat, displaying the chatbox message "You deliberately burn the perfectly good piece of meat".

Players cannot eat burnt meat, so it cannot be classified as food. It has no use except in Witch's Potion, so players burning meat will almost always drop it. Almost no players will buy burnt meat at any price, even when doing the quest, since it is so easy to make.

This item, like all burnt food, is tradeable, but not on the Grand Exchange.